NYPD Giving Out Tickets For "Manspreading" On The Subway

Gothamist – On a recent visit to the arraignment part in Brooklyn’s criminal court, PROP volunteers observed that police officers had arrested two Latino men on the charge of “man spreading” on the subway, presumably because they were taking up more than one seat and therefore inconveniencing other riders. Before issuing an [adjournment contemplating dismissal] for both men, the judge expressed her skepticism about the charge because of the time of the arrests: “12:11AM, I can’t believe there were many people on the subway”.

The two men had outstanding warrants for other Broken Windows charges, namely, being in a park after closing and public urination, and their arrests brought them out of the pool of 1.2 million New York fugitives who missed court dates or failed to pay fines for low-level offenses. The MTA’s rules of conduct only prohibit taking up more than one seat when it interferes with the functioning of the train or the “comfort of other passengers.” Nevertheless, the judge, instead of dismissing the midnight manspreading charge outright, issued what’s known as an ACD, a decision meaning all the charges will be thrown out if the defendant doesn’t get arrested for a certain amount of time.

Manspreading arrests are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to numbers-driven policing in the subway system, which often takes place in the middle of the night, according to Gangi. Underground is where Broken Windows champion and police commissioner Bill Bratton got his start at the NYPD as transit chief, and fare evasion consistently ranks among the most common types of misdemeanor arrests. But the maddening tickets and criminal charges recounted in the PROP report come in many shapes and sizes, for behavior like putting a foot on a subway seat or walking between cars (always illegal, whether or not you’re bothering anybody). Gangi said that he has no concrete proof that quotas exist, but that it’s the only explanation for the volume of questionable cases he sees coming through court. “My very strong sense, and I think other people see it the same way, is that it’s quota-driven,” he said. “These kinds of tickets or arrests are low-lying fruit, they’re easy pickings.”

Now listen it seems pretty obvious to me that the police arent just running around town issuing tickets for anyone sitting on the subway with their legs spread. Its clear they just profiled some scumbags and hit them with tickets for anything they could. Which I’m OK with. Sucks for any non-white dude that appears even remotely criminal relatively late at night. As a white dude, I ain’t got to worry about this.

But make no mistake if any po-leece ever try to give me a ticket for quote unfuckingquote manspreading, I’m going ballistic. I dont even like acknowledging the word “manspreading.” Its a dumb ass word a couple bitch feminists came up with. A couple dickless dykes mad at the world picking yet another fight with the male gender because they’re just mad at the world. So I dont even like to acknowledge the term, let alone pay the city a fine for doing it. If the NYPD is gonna give out tickets to dudes for letting their dick breath when they sit down, then I want every fat person thats ever ridden the subway ticketed too. When some big old fat bitch sits down on the subway bench and takes up 2 and a half, three seats with her wide load, she should get a ticket too. They need space for their fat fucking ass, I need space for my fat fucking hog. Kidding, its thin and rather discreet but nonetheless I’m not gonna pretend I just dont have a dick and balls because I’m on the subway. And no feminist, and no police officer is gonna change that.

PS – Chicks have some fucking nerve complaining about manspreading. They are already treated like royalty on the subway. Dudes constantly getting up and just giving their seat up for total strangers simply because they have a vagina between their legs. And thats not enough? Gotta take it a step further for the guys who dont do that and cry about leg width? Fuck you guys.